Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1990s (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
circa 368 audio cassettes
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The History workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, is a group of loosely constituted interdisciplinary academics and associated researchers, involved in a range of heritage and public history projects. Since its inception in 1977 it has been promoting research into the lives, experiences and social worlds of people and communities in South Africa, to address the erasures of colonialism and apartheid.
Their website can be found here https://www.wits.ac.za/history-workshop/ .
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection consists of approximately 368 tape recordings of interviews, conducted in the course of oral research projects, undertaken by the History workshop in the Department of History at the University of the Witwatersrand. They were donated to Historical Papers in 2005.
No background information for most of the projects is available and no audit sheets have been received. A list of interviewees is available with the hardcopy inventory and notes about the collection.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access to digitised recordings: The digital copies of the audio cassettes may be accessed in the Reading Room of Historical Papers.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
The digitisation of the audio recordings in this collection was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 2012.